Reconciliation at all Costs

👉 Reconciliation at all Costs on Literotica

Today's story is a little different. This is not a short story in the traditional sense, and it does not belong in the canon of Stewardland EU stories I've been building since 2019.

It is a letter, addressing readers of Literotica's "Loving Wives" category.

In that category there is a subgenre called "Reconciliation at any Cost," in which a cheater and their aggrieved spouse reconnect and repair their relationship after a rupture. This is not that. The title is an intentional spin on the subgenre label, and you won't find any classic apology here, no repair, no rekindling. It is a good-bye letter.

The thing the letter asks of the reader is, at its most basic, that they know themselves.

Loving Wives is notorious for its in-fighting, for the readers who hate stories of reconciliation or the readers who hate stories of cuckolding or the readers who hate stories about "burning the [cheating] bitch/bastard." It is a category full of rage. The rage can be confusing to people. Here's an essay about it.

I struggle with the rage. It's not a frequency on which I operate, most of the time. I tend to reserve my deepest hatreds for oppressors and the ills of capitalism. Humans who make interpersonal mistakes? Not so much. Show me a human who doesn't make interpersonal mistakes.

This isn't to equivocate. The mistakes matter. The mistakes hurt.

The letter I have published today is not about minimizing the mistakes. It's not about glossing over them. It's about finding the path beyond, even if that path is not one we walk down together. The title does not refer to the classic reconciliation between hurt lovers. It refers to the reconciliation of, or with, the self. 

I know the feeling of being lost after being cheated on. A world turned upside down, a love spoiled.

Hopefully you can make sense of your world.

Hopefully you can feel seen.

Read the letter, "Reconciliation at all Costs", on Literotica—and sound off in the comments there, if you have anything you want to share. The prompt is genuine. The care earnest. We are all here for each other.